Episode 270
Beyond the 300th floor.
A place that low-rise climbers can only dream of.
A woman standing far away from the hunting ground there looked at the red troll moving busily through the scope.
Unlike normal green skin, this monster gets angry when attacked and shows strength several times stronger than that of an ordinary troll.
Among climbers engaged in close combat, they were scarier than ogres, but there was nothing to fear from red trolls that could be seen through a scope from several kilometers away.
“Whoa… … .”
The moment when the shallow breathing of a woman who was breathing in and out repeatedly, her heartbeat, and the target, the Red Troll, coincided exactly.
Sigh-
The woman’s delicate fingertip pulls the trigger.
Her white, delicate fingers were so delicate that they looked like they couldn’t even catch a mosquito, but the hard calluses on her fingertips were a clear example of how many times she had pulled the trigger for this one shot.
But right before the trigger is pulled and the muzzle fires.
-master! Request arrived! Request arrived!
“… … “Visor, I told you not to talk to me while I’m hunting.”
When ‘Visor’, her helmet and combat assistant AI that she had taken off next to her, spoke to her with a smiling emoticon on the front of the helmet, Shane, the woman who was on the verge of pulling the trigger, lowered the scope with a sigh and looked at the visor.
The decision was made because the timing was already shaky and it didn’t seem like it would be possible to catch the red troll by shooting now.
Rather than wasting expensive bullets for no reason, confirming requests was the only business left to do.
‘It doesn’t matter because it wasn’t a request anyway, it was training.’
She can cover short, medium, and long distances, and can even engage in close combat with red trolls. The reason why she sniped at red trolls from a distance of more than several kilometers was simple.
training.
This is because current training was essential in order to snipe targets from a distance that one could not handle up close.
Of course, there are not many beings who can defeat Shane, the bounty hunter who is well beyond the 300th floor and looking at the 400th floor, in close combat, but the tower was wide and high.
There were many people stronger than her, and in particular, there were not many subjects that Shane could let down his guard when dealing with requests.
In the first place, if it was an easy opponent, there was no way I would pay a lot of money to request it.
After thinking about it to that point, Shane tapped the transparent front panel of the visor and asked.
“What is the commission?”
-10 million gold!
“… … “10 million?”
gulp-
Huge amount.
I have encountered this while working as a bounty hunter, but this is a huge amount of money that I have never received from a single request.
A few months ago.
The amount far exceeds the millions of gold received from Gold Rich when fighting guild wars on the side of the guild called ‘Yeokcheon’ to which Jinhyuk belongs.
“Is there anyone who can pay this amount?”
At most, someone with the financial resources to burn 10 million gold per request.
As far as Shane knew, there weren’t many people like that.
“… … “I guess not.”
A familiar face came to mind, but Shane tried to deny it.
Jinhyuk Cha.
Gold Rich, his former employer who hired him with a huge amount of money in his hands.
The guild battle with him was a battle that really helped Shane gain a lot of money and abilities, but on the other hand, it was a battle where I thought many times that I might die.
“No matter how good the money is, honestly, it’s a bit… … .”
Although doubtful thoughts and anxiety came over him, there was no need to be scared before confirming the request, so Shane took a deep breath to relieve his anxiety and tapped the front panel of his visor again to confirm the request.
[Client: Ghost Face]
“… … Aaaaaaaaaah!”
However, the moment a familiar name appeared on the panel, Shane let out a scream while tearing out his flowing short hair.
As Shane is a musketeer who spits out flames at close range and at the same time a sniper who snipes at opponents from afar, she is someone who can get close to a perfect score in the category of calmness, but the names Cha Jin-hyuk and Guimyeon were like her trigger buttons. .
A name that gets people excited and foaming at the mouth every time they see it.
“request… … Let’s look at the request, not the client… … .”
Although he felt dizzy, the amount of 10 million gold still kept Shane’s spirits up.
10 million gold.
A sum big enough to keep you sane and put off the seizure button for a moment.
Could it be that Jinhyuk would only give out the same requests every day?
“Okay, how can you make a fuss about how long it’s been since a nobleman who disappeared for almost a year reappeared? right? “It will happen.”
-Master, your expression is scary.
“shut up.”
-yes.
Since Shane is also a member of Yeokcheon, he heard about Jinhyuk’s return from Gold Rich.
I thought he was alive, but when I heard that he was really alive, I was relieved, even though I knew he would be.
So, Shane thought that he wouldn’t have brought back a large number of cases like the last guild battle, and with that thought in mind, there was one thing that Shane overlooked as he checked the list of requests.
Jinhyuk spends a lot of gold rich money, but why did he spend more gold on an easy request than in the last guild battle?
The answer was already there.
[War between Dark Elves and Elves begins]
– Come to the dark forest on the 105th floor right now and find me.
-The enemies are an elf, four Elyos, and Merlin, a member of the Nine Stars.
-The leader of the Elyos is the leader of the Dark Elves, and I am the leader of Merlin. You take charge of the remaining three Elyos.
-Request: 10 million gold.
“… … “Off.”
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-Master, your heart rate is abnormal. Hehehehehehehe.
“That’s the Ramadan breathing technique. Do you really want to become scrap metal?”
-sorry.
A strange sensation as if the blood flow throughout the body was rushing backwards.
Seeing the ‘^ㅗ^’ emoticon on the visor scratching his head next to him, he felt the urge to tear it in half, but Shane barely held back.
‘… … Wait, that can is more expensive than 10 million gold.’
Now, the functions of the helmet ‘visor’, which can be said to be the essence of magic engineering created in the half-destructed world of one’s own world, are greater than one can imagine.
Not only does it perform the most basic request confirmation, but it also boasts functions such as combat assistance that are superior to those of a decent climber.
He can handle more than two people alone, and this is also the reason why Shane is not defeated by most professional close-range climbers even in close combat.
Knowing that, Visor, a smart AI, is making fun of Shane.
Of course, if you touch it when you’re really angry, it could turn into scrap metal, so it was always the visor that retreated first.
“Off… … What should I do… … What should I do… … .”
The agony of the head of the household.
Well, it’s not like he has a family to support, but since his household account book has been full of red letters lately, Shane had to make a choice.
-mom… … I’m hungry… … .
“Shut up!”
Kang!
-Kwok! ㅠㅗㅠ
“If you use that shitty emoticon one more time, I’ll literally turn you into scrap metal.”
-yes. ^^7
Shane shook his head, saying he wouldn’t do it and kicking his loyal visor again while using a grinning emoticon.
“Yes, no matter how good the money is, it’s not like three Elyos.”
10 million gold.
It was definitely a large amount of money, and it was an amount that could have been collected by accepting a few requests.
The problem was that there weren’t many requests coming in, but dealing with three Elyos was not something a person could do.
So, the moment Shane was about to press rejection-
[In addition, you will not receive any guild DC.]
Stop-
Shane’s heart, which was about to refuse, was violently shaken by Jinhyuk’s comment that appeared again on the front panel of the visor.
Shane, a freelancer belonging to a guild, had a contract to provide 10% DC when receiving a request from someone in the same guild.
This is the reward for receiving many high-quality requests.
In other words, a 10% discount should have been applied out of this 10 million gold.
‘Can I not give you a million gold?’
One million gold.
Shane’s eyes turned into $ㅅ$ and drool began to flow from the corners of his mouth at the thought that he didn’t have to do that, even though he had to give a discount on the amount of a fairly high-level request.
“… … accept.”
It was too much money to refuse.
For Shane, a musketeer who uses consumables called bullets, money was a devilish object without which his livelihood would be dangerous, and thinking that Jinhyeok was a devil himself who was good at handling such devilish objects, Shane put his eyes on the scope again.
“Whoa… … .”
He accepted the request, but with the intention of continuing what he was doing, Shane put his eyes on the scope and caught the sight of the red troll again.
Huge body and red skin.
Shane took a deep breath and started to beat his heart rate as he took in the sight of the Red Troll in his scope from several kilometers away.
A pounding heart and heavy breathing.
The moment when the movements of the freely moving red troll coincide precisely.
“Territory, 100 people, 100 people.”
Whoop-!
The world around Shane turns black, as if black paint had been applied.
An area like black paint is sucked into the muzzle of Shane, who has made all preparations in his own area where time, space, and everything around him have stopped.
It happened in an instant.
The time between the area expanding around Shane and the area being sucked into the barrel of Shane’s gun was faster than dividing one second into hundreds.
Shane’s finger pulls the trigger of his sniper rifle, the essence of magic engineering, just as he pulled the trigger at the exact moment the triple hit.
Taang!
The gunfire that rang out in the distance did not reach the target, the Red Troll.
The gun spits out fire, and a long, large-diameter bullet stained black hits the air, covering a distance of several kilometers in one go.
Sssssssssssssssssss-
Even though the wind impeded its path and tree branches blocked its path, the bullet moved forward without any wavering.
Push!
Destroying a rock like a megalith.
Quack!
Shane’s bullet, which did not lose any of its power even after penetrating a passing bird, reached its target.
Push!
-… … Troll?
A large-diameter bullet that hit the head of a troll that opened its mouth wide to chew up the dead monster in front of it.
Baekbalbaekjung (百發白中).
Shane’s area allows you to hit the target while maintaining your initial strength no matter what the situation or obstacle is.
She has reached the point where she can capture her territory with a single bullet.
and-
“Visor.”
-Yes, Master.”
“blasting.”
-yes.
Quaaaaaaaaaaa!
The bomb, which is protected by several layers inside the bullet and is designed not to explode upon impact when fired, explodes precisely inside the troll’s head.
As he watched the booming sound and mushroom clouds rising even from a distance, Shane changed his firearm into a pistol as if there was nothing more to see, put it in the holster on his waist, and left the scene.
“Then, shall we go ask for 10 million gold?”
She was no longer at a loss as to what to do when she first accepted the request.
10 million gold.
If you’re going to get paid that much, show up to match it.
That’s what Shane thought a professional should look like.
Additionally, Shane was a professional.
“Just take this and never accept a request again!”
Although Shane was muttering this with a bright face, he did not know that he would receive more expensive requests many times in the future.
In this way, preparations for the war that would take place between the Elves and the Dark Elves began to progress.
